about things they did in order to beat rick perry or beat newt gingrich or beat rick santorum that have really been problems for them going forward with key problems with the electorate. they're more a c plus candidate, but this thing of not -- it's not adjust good government thing. the obama campaign by not putting forward a big, positive agenda, left the playing field open to romney. chris: the base -- it's a b. a b minus for romney. that's how it works out among the four. we will be covering the cliff hanger late tuesday night. right through the victory and the concession speeches. i love concession speesms. we're going to do a better survey and predictors than ever before in television history of course. it's great, however, to look back at how this medium, television, our tv forefathers lacked, all the stuff we have today. take a look at john cameron swayze. he's on the far left there. on the very first presidential election night on television. 1948. >> governor thomas e. dewey. today conceded the presidential election to president truman. >> when you see the restrained glee of th